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9 November 2009

Multimedia usability

Multimedia Usability meeting

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Topics discussed

Magnus Manske demonstrates various tools at the meeting

The meeting was for working on usability issues specific to uploading and using multimedia files on the projects. Topics included the Commons upload form, problems with image search and metadata, improving multilingual support, metrics and integration with other projects, redesigning interfaces and mass uploading tools, and education about GLAM issues and what Commons is. Detailed notes about each of these topics is available.

There were also several demonstrations of various multimedia tools.

In addition to these notes, microblogging notices from participants are tagged as #wikimediamultimedia on identi.ca and twitter.

Results

The meeting was a working meeting, with a lot of associated coding activity. One result so far was the production rollout of the GlobalUsage extension, which tracks usage of a file across all Wikimedia wikis.